Catherine Hardwicke In Talks To Direct ‘Maximum Ride’ Movie

Twilight helmer Catherine Hardwicke is in talks with Sony’s Columbia Pictures to develop and direct a film adaptation of young-adult fantasy series, Maximum Ride , says The Hollywood Reporter . The five-volume series by James Patterson chronicles six teens, known as the Flock, who are genetically altered so that they are part human and part bird. Learning to fly, they escape the laboratory where they have been housed and are pursued by a pack of creatures called the Erasers that are part human and part wolf.

Don Payne ( Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ) is writing a screenplay. Seaside Entertainment’s Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul are on board as producers, with Patterson as executive producer.

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Columbia Pictures To Film ‘Maximum Ride’

Variety is reporting that Avi Arad’s Seaside Entertainment and Columbia Pictures have acquired the screen rights to James Patterson’s popular young adult novel series Maximum Ride. Patterson’s long-running saga (a fifth volume is due in 2009) centers around six kids who have been genetically altered with avian genes that allow them to fly. When the kids escape from the hidden laboratory in which they are confined, their scientist creators send a gang of “erasers,” humans who have been altered by the addition of wolf genes, after them. Read more